Bluesman? Americana singer/songwriter? Soulful roots-rocker? Check, check, and check. Peter Karp ticks all those boxes, and a few more, in a career that started over a quarter century ago (his self-released debut was in 2000) and has recently revved up substantially. Jersey Town, his 12th, is the fifth since 2017.
The disc’s title (he was born in the smaller city of Leonia) indicates how he was exposed to a wide variety of music through his formative years in New Jersey. He later acquired an affiliation for deep blues after moving to Enterprise, Alabama.
Those life experiences, and more, lend authenticity to his potpourri of styles effortlessly combined in this collection’s eleven songs. As the cover notes declare, “The sound is real,…